Crushing device



Oct. 3, 1939.

W. CLUGSTON CRUSHING DEVICE Original Filed Feb. 15, 1957 Invgnior Aitorr lgys Patented Oct. 3, 1939 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE Renewed May 15,

1 Claim.

This invention relates to a crushing apparatus which is mainly designed for removing buttons from rags or the like, the general object of the invention being to provide two pairs of crushing 5 rollers through which the rags are passed with adjustable yieldable means for pressing the rollers of one pair against the rollers of the other pair.

This invention also consists in certain other features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts to be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing and specifically pointed out in the appended claim.

In describing the invention in detail, reference Will be had to the accompanying drawing wherein like characters denote like or corresponding parts throughout the several views, and in Which:

Figure 1 is a side view of the apparatus.

Figure 2 is a front View thereof.

In this drawing the numeral 1 indicates a base from which rises pairs of standards 8, 8a, and 9.

Rotatably supported between the pair of stand- 5 ards 9 are upper and lower rollers 5, and rotatably supported between the pair of standards But be understood when the between the two pairs the rags will be crushed rags pass downwardly of rollers the buttons on and. thus removed from the rags. The rollers 10 may be toothed as shown or they may be plain. Each spring device includes a rod 26 having one end engaging an eye 21 carried, by a standard 9, the rod passing through a hole in a pivoted standard and having its other end threaded to receive 15 a nut 28 and a spring H encircles the rod and has one end bearing against a pivoted standard and the other end against the nut.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is: 20

A crushing device of the class described comprising a base, a pair of stationary standards rising from the base, upper and lower rollers journaled in said standards and vertically spaced WALTER s. CLUGSTON. 45 

